Biblical Hebrew : Learning a Sacred Language

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Lang-Learn-HEB 492.482 Ca	4-week checkout	Due 05-23-2024

36 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture.
Course no. 2256.
disc 1: Studying Biblical Hebrew -- Learning the Aleph bet -- The Tiberian vowel system -- Roots of semitic verbs -- Hebrew verb forms and the definite article -- Hebrew's attached prepositions -- disc 2: Adjective forms and agreement in Hebrew -- Irregular Hebrew nouns and adjectives -- Hebrew pronouns and pronominal suffixes -- How Hebrew letters behave -- Perfect and imperfect Hebrew verbs -- Segholate nouns and pausal forms -- disc 3: The construct form: Hebrew's trailer hitch -- Forming Hebrew construct chains -- Hebrew verb classifications: Binyanim -- Question words in Hebrew -- Hebrew participles -- Counting in Hebrew -- disc 4: Hebrew roots with guttural letters -- Hebrew's Lamed-Hey roots -- Hebrew roots beginning with Yud -- Irregular Hebrew verbs -- Hebrew's hollow verbs -- The infinitive in Hebrew -- disc 5: Jussives, cohortatives, and "Hava nagila" -- The imperative form in Hebrew -- Verbs of the Hiphil Binyan -- Piel verbs and passive Binyanim -- Reflexive Bibyanim: Niphal and Hitpa'el -- Reading the Bible in Hebrew: Joshua 1 -- disc 6: Geminate verbs and reading Numbers 22 -- Hebrew's object suffixes -- Hebrew oaths and other idioms -- Understanding Hebrew punctuation marks -- Choosing a Hebrew Bible -- Helpful Hebrew reference books.
Lecturer: Professor Michael Carasik, University of Pennsylvania.
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